There are many reasons of this problem like increasing materialism, westernization, forgetting our Golden cultural heritage and sacrifices of lakhs of great Sikhs for the sake of community and country, selecting wrong role models like singers & actors, increasing drug addiction and many others immoralities etc…. But one significant problem according to me is that most of the Sikhs who are religious outwardly are not religious inwardly i.e. most of the Kathawachaks, Granthis, Sikh Saints, Raagis & Sikh intellectuals etc are not performing their roles in a positive sense and some of them have totally become fanatics and to some extent atheists as well …. Many kathawachaks & so called Sikh vidwans have themselves no particular or one view on any of an important issue related to our religion, whether it may be on bani, calendar or history, and they are busy in quarreling with each other uselessly & unnecessarily….. They are just dictating the sangat or listeners, don’t do this & don’t do that, don’t go here or there, don’t give respect to any other great individual belonging to different faith…. They have wasted whole their life just in critizing & disrespecting others, and have reached no where…. I feel that if some of them are given the power, they would immediately separate or delete the sacred bani of various Great Saints, Fakirs & Bhagats belonging to different religions & castes from Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji and edit it according to their limited & low thinking or interest….. Religion is based more on the Faith, than on Logic….. Though Logic is also important but not to such extent that we start disbelieving in Truth….. This is also one of the main reason I think, why Sikh sangat have started going to deras or any other places, as they are given better treatment there, whether it may be economic or mental support, than our Gurudwaras, where our spiritual leaders are busy in fighting & making money…. On any of the religious functions celebrated in Gurudwaras, most of the people visit Gurudwaras to have langar only or getting their demands fulfilled by God, but nobody thinks of transforming his/her mind by listening to Guru’s shabads and teachings….. From the beginning of a day in the morning, loudspeakers of Gurudwaras are creating such a noise pollution like if they are forcing people to listen them.... Thus, instead of attaching them, they are being detached and as a result, some people who really want to attain eternal peace through divine sermons, are agitated and finally leave their interest in it…. So, if we really want to bring our religion back in high spirits, we should have to think in a sensible way & do something positive and constructive, unles it will be too late….. At last, I will only say that these are my personal views and I don’t claim that I am totally correct….. However, I don’t have any interest to indulge in any kind of controversies or discussions on any religious matters, nor I say that I am a very great, firm or pure Sikh, but being a Gursikh I am writing what my conscience is suggesting me.... According to Gurubani, "SABH MAEH JOT JOT HAEY SOEY, TIS DAEY CHAANAN SABH MAEH CHAANAN HOEY"; "SABHE SAANJHEEVAL SDAAEN TU KISE NA DISEY BAAHRA JEEO" OR "AVAL ALLAH NOOR UPAAEA KUDRAT KE SABH BANDE, EK NOOR TE SABH JAG UPJEAA KAUN BHLE KAU MANDE" & many more, teach us that Religion is a subjective matter and all people have freedom of doing anything they want, all have different views & ideology according to their different intellect, different personal or spiritual experiences and different family background….. Many more things are in my mind which I will discuss later on some day….. Thanks a lot for reading…. "WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH"….. - HARGUNPREET SINGH.
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